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Topic	So Trump might get the US thrown out of the g7
ParanoidObsessive 06/08/18 1:39:54 PM #13:	TheCyborgNinja posted... How do you explain the obvious fact that China is in the process of taking America's place globally? Improved fertilization and agriculture provided the resources necessary for China's rapid industrialization, putting them back into a position where their superior population numbers give them the edge in geopolitics, whereas America is settling back to the position we SHOULD have been in all along, but which we leapfrogged by taking advantage of the post-WWII devastation of Europe and the collapse of colonial powers. Doubly so now that Europe has effectively rebuilt itself and forged a counterbalancing alliance, while many of the former colony nations have themselves managed to build up economies that place them on par, making the competition more severe than ever. Realistically speaking, it doesn't matter who we elected President or Congress for the last few decades, nor what policies they pursued, we were never going to retain the same level of economic dominance and political supremacy. What we're generally seeing is the result of global inevitability, based on forces that are beyond any one person (or any one nation). We just don't like it because it means all the people we kind of stepped on on the way up are lining up to kick us on the way down. About the only real impact we could have had on the process was if a completely insane government just started nuking everyone, which would break the cycle, albeit with negative consequences for most people involved. There really wasn't a realistic outcome where the US retained global hegemony and into the next century. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:902779199] in So Trump m... [t:76686268]...</cite> <quote><cite>TheCyborgNinja posted...</cite> <quote>How do you explain the obvious fact that China is in the process of taking America's place globally?</quote> Improved fertilization and agriculture provided the resources necessary for China's rapid industrialization, putting them back into a position where their superior population numbers give them the edge in geopolitics, whereas America is settling back to the position we SHOULD have been in all along, but which we leapfrogged by taking advantage of the post-WWII devastation of Europe and the collapse of colonial powers. Doubly so now that Europe has effectively rebuilt itself and forged a counterbalancing alliance, while many of the former colony nations have themselves managed to build up economies that place them on par, making the competition more severe than ever. Realistically speaking, it doesn't matter who we elected President or Congress for the last few decades, nor what policies they pursued, we were never going to retain the same level of economic dominance and political supremacy. What we're generally seeing is the result of global inevitability, based on forces that are beyond any one person (or any one nation). We just don't like it because it means all the people we kind of stepped on on the way up are lining up to kick us on the way down. About the only real impact we could have had on the process was if a completely insane government just started nuking everyone, which would break the cycle, albeit with negative consequences for most people involved. There really wasn't a realistic outcome where the US retained global hegemony and into the next century. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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